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Louisiana Residency Requirement for Voters Amendment (1972)
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The Louisiana Residency Requirement for Voters Amendment, also known as Amendment 13, was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 7, 1972, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. It proposed to eliminate durational residency requirements for voters and instead require only that voters be "actual bona fide residents."[1]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 13 (1972) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 396,178 | 64.33% | ||
| Yes | 219,722 | 35.67% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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